Sunday, December 19, 2010

Up above is the oldest picture of Cinnamon I have on my computer, from October 2000, I believe, when we had just gotten our first digital camera. We were still working on the camera technique. I can't remember how long we'd had Cinnamon at this point, but Sharon tells me she's now around thirteen years old, which, as you probably know, is remarkably old for a rabbit.

She's still very active for a rabbit her age, still gets into mischief, but she's definitely showing her age, moving a little slower, hunkering down more.

That being the case, Sharon and I have decided to take her out of the spotlight. When she's relaxing outside the bunny room, we don't want to annoy her with a camera flash, and winter being winter in Minnesota, we're not taking her outside until spring is in full bloom.

So, we're going to focus on giving her lots of love and treats. But we wanted to say, again, thank you to everyone who's supported this site with your affection for our silly rabbits. Rabbits may "frown" because of the way their mouth is shaped, but I know that when Sharon first saw Cinnamon at the animal shelter we adopted her from, we recognized there was something special about her.

Cinnamon will be greatly missed but she deserves a bit of quiet and lots of pumpkin!

I hope you will continue with this site because it adds so much to many people's lives and my buns and I look so forward to each post. I have the sense that you are closing down because of your thanks to all who have supported your site. If that is the case I will be so sad but understand how much work this is. Either way thanks so much to both of you and to Cinnamon for making a real difference by sparkling up dreary days with smart and hillarious rabbit humour! You bring a smile to my face every day and I can't thank you enough.

Have a good retirement Cinnamon. :) Hopefully a happy and healthy one. My bunns have gotten smart to where i pick up the camera and they are in the room they start to go where i can't get pictures of them easily.

Much love to you guys and Cinnamon. She is the greatest rabbit mascot ever (yes, Mr. Easter Bunny, EVER). I can only hope that my own disapprovers live such illustrious lives. They all raise a carrot to her!

Thirteen is a brilliant age for a large rex bun, so you two are obviously very devoted bunny slaves.

Though I don't comment a lot, I too adore this site, and will be very very sorry not to have it to look forward to every day... hope you keep the archives up, so I can at least get a bunny 'fix' there.

Keep warm all of you in snowy cold MN and give the beautiful Cinnamon some ear scritches from me.

Snurgles and snurgles Cinnamon! Thanks for all the disapproval. I'm just quietly hoping that you will be able to keep the site going. It's a precious precious place to go to and get above dull-drums of hoomin fray.I'll miss Cinnamon so much and I'd miss the site as a whole just as much with all the hoomins trying to get on the less disapproving side of the bunneths.

Thirteen? Who would have thought! She looks so much younger. I still hope you will keep on publishing pictures of other people's rabbits because they brighten up my day so much, but whatever happens now, good luck and have a good, well-earned retirement, Cinnamon!

It is always difficult to say good-bye to those who offer such a positive aspect to our lives but I understand and respect your decision.Cinnamon and DR has done so much more than offer us cute bunny pictures. You have provided a forum for rabbits/bunnies to be viewed as the intelligent, mischevious and comical sentient creatures that they are. Pictures of buns out of cages, lounging in sunlight or frolicking in a living room full of toys does more to educate than a 'How to...' column could. For that I thank you.DR was sent to me at a very dark time in my life. Please, please do not underestimate the power of this site and the happiness and cyber-companionship that it has provided.Nosie rubs all round!Pamela

I too am in need of confirmation. Can we plz get an answer as to whether it's the end of the site or merely the retirement of her royal highness queen cinnamon?

Either way I have greatly enjoyed the site it's happy little stop on my end of the day internet browse and allways cheers me up. So if this is really it I just need to say thanks to you and all the regular commenters for all the laughs and I wish you all the best for the future.

I do still hold out a candle of hope however that you did not mean this is the end of the site so a little info in that regard would be reallly appreciated.

I can only add that on my reader which is the first thing I look at daily; DR is the first listing. I also echo the sentiments in hoping that DR continues since 'I've grown accustomed to the faces' there.

Queen Cinnamon deserves all that she will receive in her retirement and much more for all the love, quirky humor and rotfl captions we have enjoyed all this long while.

I must now make all my DR shirts into a t-shirt quilt so I can have them forevermore. :)

i want to thank you guys (and obviously cinnamon) for giving me a place to send people to show that rabbits are more than the caged animal from their childhood. it's hard to prove that a rabbit's place is in the home on your own. cinnamon has a been a great ambassador for her species and her hard work has not gone unappreciated at our house.

DR became way more than you ever anticipated and over the years you, through Cinnamon and Latte and Hazel before her, have brought more awareness to rabbits, and rescue. Cinnamon has made a great impact for buns all over the world. She deserves to retire and enjoy the peace. All the best to her in her retirement and to you as well.

Happy Retirement Queen Cinnamon! You deserve to relax and enjoy yourself. You've earned your retirment, Sweet Rabbit! I will miss your precious face, but I'm thankful you've left us so many pictures of yourself. I have your book on my night stand!

Dear Cinny and her humans who worship her, i have been a fan for some time and its always a treat to see your disapproving face however it is understandable about your retirement time for you humans to truely master their worship techniques. Dear Cinny humans i commend you on all the hard work you put in daily to give us a new disapproving bun and also the love you have in your hearts to adopt a rabbit and to truely understand their needs and taking such great care of her to be 13! i will still check in for my daily dose of disapproval!

I had been wondering how you would handle Cinnamon's advancing age. Being a longtime fan, I had been a bit concerned as I knew she had to be well within senior-bun territory. Thirteen is amazing, and I hope that Cinnamon has many more years of disapproval left in her. Mickey and I will miss seeing her, but we'll still be coming back to see all the other disapproving rabbits. :)

My wife and I both think that Cinnamon is a wonderful bunny and we wish her well and hope she has a restful winter with lots of treats. We look forward to seeing her again when it's spring and you can take pictures outdoors!

I don't usually post, but I have been a faithful viewer of DR for a long time. I'll miss Cinnamon, but I agree that everybun deserves a restful retirement. Thanks so much to Cinnamon's hoomins for sharing her with us, and for all the wonderul otherbuns you have posted to the blog!

Thirteen years is an astonishing age for a bunny. I'm sure it's because of all the love and great care she has received. She has brightened up the lives of countless numbers of people, including me, and I wish her a long and happy retirement.

Beloved Cinny. Take it easy. We love you. It's like you are a member of the family.

And huge thanks to Cinnamon's humans for such a wonderful site that has done so much to promote the care and understanding of rabbits. I just hope that the site isn't going into retirement--maybe a little break, but please come back. We just gotta have our daily dose of DR!

Thank you, Cinnamon -- you have brought me and my friends so much happiness and so many laughs. You introduced me to the wonderful world of buns!

No one, but no one, ever disapproved of things the way you did. You have earned all the Nutriberries and canned pumpkin you can handle.

Perhaps you will make a cameo appearance from time to time? Perhaps your fans can visit you if ever we are up your way? Perhaps your hoomins (hint, hint) will put up a gallery of all your photos? And links to all your YouTube appearances?

Happy Retirement to Queen Cinnamon, truly the most beautiful bun of all. DR is a special place of happiness in this crazy world. Thank you, hoomins, for making this possible. I will now go snorgle my Benjamin!

Harvey, Gaby, and I wish Cinnamon a wonderful retirement. Thank you for sharing all her crazy antics, and I hope that maybe she'll relent and give us a few more. And thank you for all you've done to help the bunnies who most approve of your valuable work. Bunny kisses to you all.

Like another on here, I missed a few days and came in on the 'clarification' post and immediately thought the worst. But how happy I am to be completely wrong! Cinny, I hope your retirement is filled with years and years of nutriberries, pumpkin and as many head nuzzles as you would like to receive from your loyal servants. Congratulations on your retirement. As you can see here, you will be missed.